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Today Liferay released an update of its flagship software: Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA2! [Download] [Quick Start] This update corrects several issues found since the GA1 release in late 2013 found by our community and Liferay's continuous testing teams. Want to know more? Read on! Release Naming Following Liferay's official versioning scheme, this release is Liferay Portal...

Libraries (or JAR-files if you will) exist in many different locations in your Liferay installation. Some reside in Tomcat's lib folder, others are included in the lib folder of Liferay's ROOT. And of course, there are the libraries that are included in your own portlets. It's no secret that Liferay performs some magic tricks to enable access to different classes in different...

The Liferay Marketplace has come a long way since opening its doors in August 2012. Since then it has grown almost 5x in number of apps and has registered more than 600 developers from over 25 countries. And we continue to evolve the Marketplace so that it creates value for Liferay customers, while staying relevant to our community of partners and developers. I'm happy to announce...

Recently, Liferay Brazil decided to start the Employee Volunteer Plan (EVP) in its office. As you have learned, its a project to sponsor employee participation in social causes for which he or she can receive either a pecuniary grant to support a nonprofit or be given some work hours to work for humanitarian causes. All you have to do is choose who you'll help, describe why your...

Olá pessoal   Realizamos o primeiro meetup no Rio de Janeiro na Caelum e foi um sucesso.  Conversamos bastante sobre Liferay e quem estava presente, que até então, não tinha visto a versão 6.2 do Liferay ficou impressionado com as melhorias que a ferramenta teve.   O próximo evento será algo mais...

Introduction Configuring a Liferay cluster is part experience and part black magic. There is some information that you can find online, there's some information you can only find out while working on it and then there are some things like how to configure ehcache to use unicast that you can only discover through blood, sweat and tears. This post will first describe how to...

Olá pessoal Realizamos mais um meetup informal sobre Liferay no dia 06/03/2014.   Ele foi extremamente produtivo e quem não foi perdeu   Não deixe de comparecer no próximo.   Não se esqueça de se inscrever no meetup.com para facilitar a comunicação de novos eventos. http://www.meetup.com/Liferay-Sao-Paulo-User-Group   Abraços ...

Here are some of the new chapters and sections for you to check out in the Developer's Guide: Developing JSF Portlets with Liferay Faces (New Chapter) Liferay Faces developer content now has its own chapter in the Dev Guide. Since JSF is the Java EE standard for developing web applications using MVC, you may want to consider implementing your portlets in JSF. Liferay Faces...

As promised this blog post is a continuation of the previous one about RESTFul services (check the related blog) On this blog post I will explain how to integrate an external javascript library - EXTJS with Liferay, combined with our Permission System. I am going to use the same RESTFul APIs developed previously to provide the CRUD operations and use EXTJS to invoke these APIs...

There has been a tremendous lack of understanding around what Liferay means by "hot deploy" and "auto deploy". Most people get the two concepts confused, believing them to be one and the same. In reality, Liferay has TWO completely separate and different concepts: hot and auto deploy (i.e. Hot Deploy != Auto Deploy).   Hot Deploy Many of you are familiar with hot...

Hello to all!  This is my first post on liferay.com, so let me introduce myself: my name is Andrea (yes, it's a male name in Italy!) and I'm a software engineer working in the R&D group at SMC Treviso. In this post I'll talk about the new Calendar app which was shipped with Liferay 6.2, and especially how to integrate it with the world around... I'd like to share my...

Hi guys, I would like to share some important recommendations for your  portal-ext.properties files.   First, you must remember the order for the overwrite properties. Liferay loads the values of the properties defined in the portal.properties file (inside the portal-impl.jar), next overwrite with the values of the properties in portal-ext.properties, then overwrites...

Deploying Liferay on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Configuring RDS for database, S3 for data folder and Scaling Liferay using Load Balancer on Cloud Pre-requisites:  You have a AWS account Configured with keypair ...

Introduction:   Liferay Have given AUI Auto complete list from which we can populate matching values to user in input fields and data will be served from server with help of Ajax call.   AUI Auto Complete list need source property this specify the data which populated in input filtered.   This...

Today we have released Sync Desktop 1.2 for Mac, Windows and Linux (Beta), providing users easy access to their Liferay Portal 6.2 document repositories right from their desktops. Downloads for both desktop and mobile devices (iOS and Android) can be accessed from here.   Sync is an ideal companion to Liferay Portal and Social Office, allowing users to link to their sites...

On March 1, 2014 Liferay released the 1st Milestone of Liferay Faces 4.x: Liferay Faces 4.2.0-m1 JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2 *NEW* Release Notes Liferay Faces 4.1.0-m1 JSF 2.1 + Liferay Portal 6.1 *NEW* Release Notes Download Instructions Since the 4.2.0-m1 and 4.1.0-m1...

Before starting this post I would like to recall a previous excellent article of Brett Swaim "Using log4j to ensure each portlet has it's own log file". In his post Brett summarizes (look at the article and comments) pros and cons of Log4j versus Liferay Logging Framework as the logging API to use in your custom plugins (portlets, web, hooks and so on). In this article I would...

Liferay 6.2 brings the era of the application display template (ADT) into full swing. There have been some awesome posts about how to use the ADT. For more information about ADT see this page, this page, this page, etc.   Right, right, sorry, as you can see, there are many uses of ADT. It allows you to write a new template for a portlet so that it is displayed in...

The Liferay team is pleased to announce the release of the Liferay worldwide public training tour! Training provides opportunities to learn the latest tips and best practices for the management, administration, and development of your portal. Our launch will include updated 6.2 trainings, "Mastering Liferay Fundamentals" (formerly Portal Administrator), which covers every major...

When we first started AlloyUI 2.0 development we realized that we needed a better build tool for the project. Although Ant could do the job, it was not as fast and easy as NodeJS's solutions. So we decided to switch and rewrite all our automated tasks. At that time, YUI was using Yogi to automate tasks via command line and as usual we decided to follow their path since our...